Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive

Find below an archive of the most recent talks at the IoA. Click on the title for full details including abstract and attached presentation where available. For a full list of previous talks, please click the link under each section.

Previous Seminars

Title	Speaker	Date
New evidence for an ancient merger event in the Milky Way: the Hercules Aquila Cloud	Iulia Simion (IoA)	12 June, 2013
Project 1640: Conducting Comparative Planetary Science	Ben Oppenheimer (AMNH)	12 June, 2013
On Tour with WHAM: Surveying the Galactic Interstellar Ecosystem	Greg Madsen (Sydney -> IoA)	5 June, 2013
Are globular cluster sizes standard rulers?	Poul Alexander (IoA)	5 June, 2013
Using [CI] to Probe the Interstellar Medium in z~2.5 Submillimeter Galaxies	Susie Alaghband-Zadeh (IoA)	29 May, 2013
Probabilistic fragmentation of self-gravitating accretion discs	Matt Young (IoA)	29 May, 2013

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
Small Stars in Large Surveys - Large Surveys for Small Stars	Boris Gänsicke (Warwick)	13 June, 2013
The Formation Modes of z > 1 Galaxies and their Cosmological Implications	Christopher Conselice (Nottingham)	6 June, 2013
Astrophysics and Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: the Role of Simulations	Stefano Borgani (INAF Trieste)	30 May, 2013
New Ideas on Mechanisms of Angular Momentum Transport and Variability in Boundary Layers of Accretion Disks	Roman Rafikov (Princeton)	23 May, 2013
Exploring Accreting Black Holes with X-ray Reflection and Reverberation.	Andrew Fabian (IoA)	16 May, 2013

Previous Galaxies Discussion

Title	Speaker	Date
Revealing (negative) AGN feedback through broad wings of CO emission lines	Claudia Cicone (Cavendish)	14 June, 2013
Strong Lensing as a Cosmological Probe: Obstacles and Solutions	Thomas Collett (IoA)	7 June, 2013
Forming massive seed black holes by direct collapse	John Regan (IoA)	31 May, 2013
Simulations of damped Lyman-alpha systems	Simeon Bird (Princeton)	24 May, 2013
Cold dark matter: cusps and cores	Andrew Pontzen (Oxford)	17 May, 2013

Previous Sackler Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
Is the Earth Rare?	Jim Kasting (Penn State University)	8 November, 2012
Sackler Lecture, Present and Future Far Infrared Extragalactic Astronomy: Herschel and Beyond	Matt Griffin, Cardiff University	3 November, 2011
Measuring Black Hole Spin	Ramesh Narayan, Harvard	25 November, 2010
Measuring the Expansion of the Universe	Wendy Freedman (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington)	8 October, 2009
Massive Black Holes and Galaxies	Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching & Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)	13 November, 2008

Previous Eddington Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
The Turbulent Environment of Planet Formation	Phil Armitage (Colorado)	7 March, 2013
Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars	Professor Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington	8 March, 2012
Astronomy: A Subject on the Cusp	Shri Kulkarni, Caltech	10 March, 2011
Searching for Life on Mars	Peter Smith, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona	11 March, 2010